Observations of Precipitation Processes at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games

摘要

@@ Introduction The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games were conducted in February and March 2010. The Nowcasting Working Group (NWG) of the World Weather Research Program (WWRP) of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) promoted the Science of Nowcasting of Olympic Weather (SNOW-V1O) Research Development Project (RDP). The main goal of SNOW-V1O was to accelerate the development of winter nowcasting in complex terrain. Nowcasting weather elements included precipitation type, intensity, wind, visibility and low cloud which are all critical to support the forecasting/nowcasting for safety and security of the public, athletes and organizers but also for fair conditions for the competitions. There is both an operational and research component to the forecasting and to monitoring network (Joe et al, 2010). The focus of this paper is the precipitation processes revealed by remote sensing observations. In-situ and model observation are or will be discussed elsewhere.